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A Reader Enquires: Stained Glass at Ipswich Library
Hello, I have an amateur interest in photographing stained glass and often find the Vidimus articles of great interest. But I have a query and wonder if there is anyone who can provide an answer. I...
View ArticleNew Restoration Begins at York Minster
The first of a series of windows have been removed as a major restoration project gets under way at York Minster. The windows, in the south choir clerestory, date to the early years of the fifteenth...
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Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture
Monday, 16th September 2019, 2.00 pm Ely Cathedral Education & Conference Centre, Palace Green, Ely David Hillman’s Stained Glass windows for Synagogues: A lecture by Prof David Newman OBE Followed...
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Heraldry and Loss at East Sutton church
An article about the fourteenth- to seventeenth-century armorial glass in East Sutton church (Kent), by the genealogist, Marcus Herbert, appears in the 2018 volume of Archaeologia Cantiana, the Journal...
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In Memoriam: Dr Ulf-Dietrich Korn
Fig. 1. Dr Ulf-Dietrich Korn. We have heard the sad news that our German CVMA colleague Ulf-Dietrich Korn died on 14 May of this year aged 82. Having studied architecture and art history in Stuttgart,...
View ArticleReminder: Stained Glass Museum Annual Lecture
Monday, 16th September 2019, 2.00 pm Ely Cathedral Education & Conference Centre, Palace Green, Ely David Hillman’s Stained Glass windows for Synagogues: A lecture by Prof David Newman OBE Followed...
View ArticleReminder: Stained Glass Museum Autumn Lecture Series
This Autumn, the Museum’s lecture series will focus on the concept of the ‘new’ in relation to stained glass: new commissions, new discoveries of medieval glass, and new ways of looking at the medium....
View ArticleReminder: Canterbury Cathedral Lecture Series: See-through Stories: Windows...
Continuing the theme of the trio of lectures given in May, this September and October three further lectures will be presented by leading public speakers taking as their inspiration Canterbury...
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Stained Glass discovery at Holkham Hall
Fig. 1. A newly-discovered panel of stained glass is carried out from the cellars at Holkham Hall. At Holkham, in Norfolk, a large, beautifully-preserved panel of stained glass was recently discovered...
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Friends of Gloucester Cathedral Lecture: ‘The Stained Glass of Tom Denny’
Friday, 4th October 2019, 4.30 – 7.45pm Fig. 1. Detail from Tom Denny’s glazing of the St Thomas Chapel, Gloucester Cathedral, installed as part of the 900th anniversary of Abbot Serlo’s 1089 laying of...
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BSMGP Autumn Lecture 2019” ‘Imported Continental Glass in Kent Churches’
Friday, 11th October 11th at 6.15pm Fig. 1. Pyramus and Thisbe from Ovid’s Metamorphosis (with cavorting putti) at Patrixbourne. The British Society of Master Glass Painters’ (BSMGP) Autumn lecture for...
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Exhibition at The Stained Glass Museum: ‘Where the Buffalo Roam: Stained...
September 9th, 2019 – February 20th, 2020 ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’, by award-winning photojournalist M.J. Alexander, reflects the tumultuous history of the American frontier, as memorialised in the...
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In Memoriam: Peter Laurence Martin MA MPhil
Fig. 1. Peter Laurence Martin. It is with great sadness that we report the death of Peter Martin. A professional architect in private practice in Switzerland for 30 years, Peter was first drawn into...
View ArticleStained Glass Museum Study Weekend 2020: West Kent
Booking is now open for the SGM’s 2020 Study Weekend. This year, the event will take place Thursday 23rd – Sunday 26th April, and will explore West Kent from a base in Royal Tunbridge Wells. Highlights...
View ArticleBSMGP Lecture Series 2020
The British Society of Master Glass Painters has announced details of its annual three-part lecture series for 2020. In the Spring lecture, on March 13th, John Edwards will explore the life and works...
View ArticleStained Glass Museum Glass Racks Appeal
The Stained Glass Museum is currently raising funds to buy and install two new bespoke collections storage racks to help to house its growing collection of stained glass. This extra storage space will...
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£800,000 Stained Glass Restoration Project at Long Melford
Fig. 1. Late fifteenth-century ‘donor’ figures, now kneeling in the north aisle windows of Long Melford Church. The late fifteenth-century stained glass at Long Melford parish church has long been...
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Bardwell Church: Vital Restoration Underway
Fig. 1. Sir William de Bardeswell, now in the nave of Bardwell Church. Photo: Roger Rosewell. The late medieval parish church at Bardwell (Suffolk) is undergoing an urgent programme of restoration...
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His colourful materials: University of York acquires 18th-Century stained...
Fig. 1. Peckitt’s portrait in stained glass, now in York Art Gallery. Photo: The York Glaziers Trust. The University of York has acquired a notebook belonging to the celebrated glass artist William...
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In Memoriam Prof. Paul Crossley (1945-2019)
Fig. 1. Prof. Paul Crossley (1945-2019) Vidimus is very sad to report the recent passing of Prof. Paul Crossley. Prof. Crossley was an eminent historian of medieval architecture and art in its broadest...
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